INCF community blog
The INCF community blog is where we collect news, success stories, information about the INCF Assembly, our workshops, and community activities. Community members are encouraged to submit relevant job openings, write guest posts, review and recap events, and suggest content that they would like to see featured on the blog.
Do you have a success story related to neuroinformatics, standardization, or FAIR and open neuroscience? Are you hiring for a job related to neuroinformatics? Did you attend one of our events and want to do a write-up? Let us know in this form!
In basic as well as applied neuroscience research, there is an unmet need for systematic, standardized and well-defined data organization practices and proper data description. Standards are needed at all levels: for data collection and description, for reporting methods and documenting workflows, for describing and sharing code for data processing and analysis.
Last month, from September 18-22, INCF virtually hosted another iteration of our Neuroinformatics Assembly 2023. Neuroinformatics Assembly is the annual gathering of the INCF network and serves as its major outreach outlet for the network.
The Institute of Systems Neuroscience (https://ins-amu.fr), a joint Inserm-University research unit located on the Timone campus in Marseille, is seeking to recruit a project manager under the authority of the team leader and institute director, Viktor Jirsa.
An exceptional scientific leadership opportunity to lead the Centre and the next set of fundamental discoveries in brain research and mental health. As Scientific Director, you will continue to shape the bold, global vision for the Centre that leverages the computational and analytical assets, and strengths of CAMH, the University of Toronto, and the Canadian and international neuroscience and data science communities.
In a continuing effort to identify barriers to data sharing and reuse among neuroscience researchers worldwide, INCF’s Infrastructure Committee is redistributing a brief anonymous survey.
INCF and its Training and Education Council is arranging another instance of the Introductory Course in Neuroinformatics, this time on location at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, on October 2-4 2023.
INCF is asking for your help to review the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) data structure to assess its value as a community standard.
INCF is asking for your help to review the Digital SWC Reconstructions Describing Neuron Morphology (SWC) to assess their value as a community standard.
The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics (KCNI) is offering their second annual in-person project week! During the project week, trainees will learn hands-on techniques for integrating multi-scale neuroscience data. Altogether, up to 30 trainees will join KCNI in person, full-time, to engage with cutting-edge neuroinformatics methods, with support from our KCNI scientists and teaching assistants.
INCF is happy to announce that the CAMH Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics (KCNI) will host a virtual learning week, where KCNI scientists will share their knowledge with learners worldwide through open public webinars.